Repeating firearm.



W. W. HUMPHREYS.

REPEATING FIREARM.

(Application filed Sept. 3, 1901.)

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hearse WILLIAM lV. llUMlllREYS, OF SHEFFIELD, ILLINOIS.

REPEATING FIREARM.-

EPECIFICJLTZUN forming part of Letters Patent NO. 703,266 dated une 24, 1902.

Application filed September 3, 1901- Serial l lo/74.092. (Nomodeh: i

To (NZ lL'l l/filll it may concern: p

Be it known that I, WILLIAM W. Hun- PHREYs, a citizen of the United States, and a'resident of Shefiield, in the county of Bureau'and State of Illinois, have invented a newv and Improved Repeating Firearm, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

' My invention relates more particularly to repeating shotguns than to rifles of that type in which the receiver is open at the bottomas, for example, the model of 1897 of the Winchester shotgun or the Spencer shotgun, in which to load the magazine the gun is turned when closed so that the under surface of the carrier-clock can be seen and the cartridge is laid upon this and pushed into the magazine.

flhe purpose of this invention is to provide a construction whereby one or all of the cartridges, at the option of the shooter, can be expelled from the magazine by the magazinespring, so that at the end of a hunt the sports man can unload his gun with ease, rapidity, and perfect safety, avoiding danger of accidental explosion.

A further purpose of the invention is to allow the magazine of the gun to be emptied without manipulating the action of the same, enabling the sportsman to change his load as often as necessary to meet the requirements of the game at hand. The invention consists .in the novel cpnstruction and combination of the several parts, as will-be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is tobe had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a side elevation of the frame of the gun and a portion of the barrel, magazine, and stock, parts of the magazine and frame showing in section. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the frame and a portion of the magazine, showing the open receiver at the bottom of the frame; and Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of one of the cartridgestops and the device for manipulating the same.

A represents the frame of the gun, 13 the barrel, ii the magazine, and C the stock, the

frame having an opening D in its bottom adapted for introd ucingthe cartridgesintothe magazine and as an outlet for the cartridges 5-5 released by the improved device and adapted to be discharged through said opening, which opening D is usually known as a receiver.-"' The improved device consists of two sections E, each including a cartridge-stop and an operating device therefo'iz' Avcartridgestop section of the device consists ofan inner. end member 10, adapted for attachment to the inner face of the frame, and a, forwardlyextending body member hinged tothe inner or fixed end member 10. Each body member 11 carries a spring 12 at its outer side face, vand a lug 13 at the forward end portionof its inner face,a'sisalsoshowninFig.3. Theoperating-section of each device consists of a post 14, secured to the outer faceof the body-. member 11 of thedevic'e'at the lug 13 The i outer end of each-post 14-terminates in .af' fork or bifurcation l5, and in said .forked portion of each post the main end portion of alever 16 is received, pins being passed through the members of the forks carried by the posts It and through longitudinal slots in the levers 16, 'as' shown in Fig. 3. Eacli leverlfi is provided with a pivot-pin'l'x' between its ends, and aknob 18 is connected with each lever 16 at the outer face of its forward end portion, asis also shown in Fig. 3, Each cartridge-stop is made to. enter or fit in a longitudinal chanhel in the inner face of the side portion of the frame A, occupying positions immediately opposite each'other, as is shown in Fig. 2, the members 10 being screwed or otherwise secured to the-frame. When the cartridge-stops are properly placed 96 in the frame, the lugs 13 of the saidstops in the normal position of the latter will extend into the frame a sufficient distance to'engage with the rim of the innermost cartridge 21 in the magazine B and prevent such cartridge 5 from being forced into the frame by the controlling-spring 19 of the magazine andgits connected plunger-head 20. The'lugs 13 serve to hold the cartridge in position to enter the barrel ii. The springs 12 serve to hold the :00 body portions 11 of the cartridge-stops in their normal positions. x

The body member of each cartridge-stop is i ttod in a suitable recess or channel produced magazine connect, and

in the frame where the frame, barrel, and

the levers 16 are pivoted in position by the pins17, the knob 18 extending normally outward slightly beyond the outer side faces of the frame, as is shown in Fig. 2. The body portion of each cartridgestop has outward movement, so that bypress ing inward upon the buttons or knobs 18 the lugs 13 are carried within the'channels accommodating the body portions of the cartridge-stops, permitting the innermost cartridge to pass into the frame, forced into the same by the magazine-spring 19, whereupon;

the cartridge thus forced out from the magazine will drop out from the frame through the opening or receiving-section O of the frame.

7 In this manner one cartridge after the other inward, bringing zine connected therewith,

maybe discharged from the magazine with out operating the action of the gun, or any desired number of cartridges may be so discharged with perfect safety and with rapidity and the magazine be again loaded as quicklyas the shells were discharged therefrom. The meme tthat the buttons or knobs 18 are relievexifrom inward pressure'the springs 12 of th body members of the cartridge-stops act to force the body portions of said stops the lugs 13 again in position to/engagc" with the rim of the innermost cartridge, ,4 v

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In repeating firearms, aframe, a magathe frame having a, cover-less cartridge-outlet in communication with the magazine, a' cartridge-controlling spring in the magazine tending toward thecartridge-outlet in the frame, spring-controlled cartridge-stops mountedin' the side portions of the frame, each Attop comprising an inner end member adapted for attachment to the frame, and a body member having a pivotal connection with theend member, and

a lug carried by each body member, adapted to engage with and to be disengaged from a cartridge, and means, substantially as described, for manipulating the cartridge-stops from the exteriorof the frame, as set forth.

2. In repeating firearms provided with an 'outletin communication the cartridges in the magazine being springcontrolled, cartridge-stops consisting of bars and a spring-controlled with the magazine,

havinghinged connection with the inner faces of the frame at their rear portions and provided with springs, normally forcing their forward or free ends inward within the frame, the free ends of the said cartridge-stops being capable of outward movement, levers fulcrumed within the frame, operating from the outside of the frame, and connection between the said levers and the free ends of the car tridge-stops, whereby the lugs on the cartridge-stops may be drawn outward within the'plane of the inner side faces of the frame, permitting cartridges from the magazine to enter the frame and escape through the opening thereof.

3. In repeating firearms, the combination, with the frame, stock, barrel and magazine, plunger located in the magazine, the frame having outlet-openings in communication with the said magazine, of cartridgestops comprisingan attaching member and a bodymember hinged thereto, the cartridge-stops being located in longitudinal channels formed in the inner faces of the frame, a lug extending from the inner face of the body of each cartridge-stop at its forward end, which lugs are adapted to normally engage with the rinrof the innermost cartridge in the magazine, springs attached to the body portions of the cartridge-stops, holding them in their normal positions, levers fulcrumed upon the frame, each lever havinga member which extends beyond the outer face of the frame and a memberwhich connects with a forward end of the body portion of the cartridge-stops, the said parts operating in the manner herein set forth.-

4. In firearms, a frame having an outlet for cartridges, springs controlling cartridgestops, mounted within the side portions of the frame, which stops are secured at one end,

being free at their opposite ends, and lugs at the movable ends of the stops, adapted to engage with and to be disengaged from a cartridge,.as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM W. IIU M PIIREYS. Witnesses: Goo. W. BOYDEN,

I JIE'D G. LINDNER.

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